The World's First CRAY T3E Retires

PITTSBURGH, October 11, 2004 
After nearly eight years of faithful service, PSC’s Cray
T3E — known to users as Jaromir — was retired on
September 30. Installed in April 1996, Jaromir was the first
CRAY T3E system shipped from Cray Research. The initial
256-processor configuration expanded in April 1997 to 512
processors. Over the span of its service, Jaromir provided 25
million CPU hours to more than 3,000 researchers.

Although Jaromir was a reliable performer, more powerful and
cost-effective PSC platforms are now available —
especially including LeMieux,
PSC’s terascale system, complemented by PSC’s
twin 128-processor, 512-gigabyte HP GS1280 shared-memory
“Marvel” systems (Rachel and Jonas). Soon to arrive at PSC, the newest
high-performance system from Cray, Inc. — provisionally
named Red Storm — carries forward some of the most
successful features of the T3E.